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th # 72 •novemBER 16 , 2015 Martin make no money. It has always been customary, around Mirano, to celebrate the closing of the agricultural year, on November 11, eating the goose. This is because in this part of the year the meat of the bird is so fat and tender that it melts in your mouth, but especially because Mirano landowners were largely Jews, and could not eat pork. Roberto Gallorini and Sandro Zara decided to 54 | WE THE ITALIANS www.wetheitalians.com restore and formalize these ancient customs: a way to remember the pe